MrLLM@ani.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWhich computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?message-squaremessage-square124linkfedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down11
arrow-up197arrow-down1message-squareWhich computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?MrLLM@ani.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square124linkfedilink
minus-squarebaines@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoit’s because most errors are software state issues and those kinda people never ever power cycle regardless of what they claim source: 7 years of phone tech support
minus-squareosanna@lemmy.vglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 day agoI did IT for 10 years. fuck. “Have you tried restarting?” “yes” Uptime: fucking millennia.
minus-squareNoam_Calhoun@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up7·23 hours agoI used to be nice and not remotely restart their machine without telling them. Used to be.
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·24 hours agoThat’s because they think logging off or turning the monitor off/on is the same as reatarting, or, in the case of laptops / rackmount KVMs closing the lid and reopening
it’s because most errors are software state issues and those kinda people never ever power cycle regardless of what they claim
source: 7 years of phone tech support
I did IT for 10 years. fuck.
“Have you tried restarting?”
“yes”
Uptime: fucking millennia.
I used to be nice and not remotely restart their machine without telling them. Used to be.
Channeling the BOFH.
That’s because they think logging off or turning the monitor off/on is the same as reatarting, or, in the case of laptops / rackmount KVMs closing the lid and reopening